High angle rescue team recovers body

The worried family of a teenager who had been missing for several hours at Signal Hill in St. John’s finally got the news they most dreaded late Sunday afternoon.

The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said a young man in his late teens appeared to have slipped from an embankment on Signal Hill around 11:45 a.m.

For several hours, police, the high-angle rescue team of the St. John’s Regional Fire Department, a fast-water rescue craft and a Universal helicopter searched the area for the missing man.

The RNC reported late in the afternoon that the young man did not survive the fall.

The Canadian Coast Guard retrieved the teen’s body around 5 p.m.

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